Optimo

it does sound great, i wonder if i can obtain a copy from the chaps - will investigate

I can't believe that a club with *that* music policy is so popular, how on earth has it worked so well? Lauren, what's their secret? And why haven't clubs all over Britain followed suit?

The first I heard of it was in the business pages of The Sun (!) where they mentioned how the djs hung a mic over the crowd dancing, sampled them, made a song out of the noise and played it back out minutes later. Unreal.

Also, is it always on a Sunday? I thought it was a Friday night thing.

Had that impression the 2 years i spent in Glasgow. The rest of scotland was full of hardcore rave/gabber kids.

then one week three hundred people turned up which we thought was a fluke, but the next week even more turned up and it continued to grow from there. our home, the sub club burned down and we were in temporary homes for three years but returned back 'home' a few months ago. since then it has gone even more ballistic. last sunday there was a blizzard going on outside and we expected it to be really quiet but we had the biggest crowd we have ever had and had to turn a couple of hundred away. it's insane, i tell ya!

the really strange thing for me is that we have a really young crowd who will freak to records they don't know from before they were born! i guess people are bored and want more from their night out. people in scotland also party like their lives depend on it!

we have been lumped in with electroc(l)a$h, post punk, bootlegs, too many djs etc but really, we are none of these things. i follow music, not what anyone else does and doing this in relative isolation up in scotland has been great for us. it means we don't belong to any scene and will always operate outside what is happening in the media. as fads come and go, we will still be here just playing music.

one of the reasons it might have worked is that after ten years of being techno djs, myself and my partner really know how to work a crowd so even though we play all types of music, we put it together in quite an energetic way and mix records that should never work together. i mean who'd have thought mo tucker kept such good time but it's possible to mix live the whole of 'waiting for my man' over some slamming techno track . likewise johnny cash's 'personal jesus' or a whole multitude of other songs. also, using a powerbook live lets me do things that leave people wondering 'how did he do that?'. but most importantly, it's fun - i might play reallly obscure records from the sun city girls, billy childish, the ze or 99 label or whatever but i always know when it is time to give the crowd a dose of fun.

i hope i don't come across all arrogant here. i'm not but i truly love what i do and it is the most enjoyable thing i have ever done in my whole life.

and finally, it CAN work elsewhere - we have taken optimo to new york, paris, helsinki, belfast, munich and stockholm and it worked every time.

if any ILM'ers ever come and don't enjoy themselves i will personally refund their costs for getting here.

presumptuous? never

What is it about this song? Erol Alkan (of Trash) namechecks it in this month's Jockey Slut. I really must try to make it sometime. I missed thema at Auto too, despite being there. I was probably stuck in the murderous beer queue. Unfortunately whenever I'm up in Glasgow I'm usually travelling back down south on a Sunday. I will get there though.

that's what really struck me about the night. the crowd went mad whether they knew a track or not. there is no way to manufacture that kind of enthusiasm, and it's really exciting to see.

gygax, how's the old fmbb doing?

i was in thinking today of crazy things: optimo global tastemaker early 2000s nostalgia. but in a very chris marker exotica way. crazy things.

yes it is.

(i thk i know wht she looks like, really pretty, bowl cut, i thk i saw her at the latest 'mars hotel' gig.)

Next Optimo for me: The Go! Team one, I think. Would like to do Clinic too but don't think I will.

New Year too.

So, when they confirm I have to find somewhere to live and move. And do NYE Optimo. I am sure it is possible somehow...

take the megabus, ronan.

i attended the 1999/2000 hogmanay optimo at the art school..... i don't remember a single thing except a friend of mine stealing an entire case of mini tonic bottles.

(they do play Limp Bizkit at Optimo right?)

http://www.optimo.co.uk/killthedj.htm

bah, forget it then.

i think that is hilarious.

Who are the 2 cover stars?

And Is kill the dj records just going to be for mix cds?

i would find it hilarious if i didn't get about ten emails a day asking me these questions.

michael - the cover stars are two incredibly shady guys from glasgow. kill the dj was initially only a mix / re edit series but will also i believe release original material too.

The licensing process must have been insane...

you CANNOT imagine. it took 18 months!

Ha ha - I'm such a liar. I just ordered it from cdquest.com, along with the So Young But So Cold comp and a couple of other things that were much cheaper than in the UK. That $:£ rate is just too seductive.

xmas optimo isn't going to happen for me. i'm thinking new year's eve..

(cdquest.com)

I'm with it, hep cat.

http://www.tigersushi.com/site/frameset.jsp?page=shop/new_shop.htm

ha Does this mean a "Muzik" dance type section will return to the NME?

"COngratulations. The best club in Glasgow has now turned into Shack"

i think the press we're getting 'cos of the mix cd will actually really fuck the club up for the worse. it happened before with a club i did called 'pure' and within 6 months of being in various magazines the club was full of idiots. oh well. i suppose we can always get whitehouse in to be the resident band for a few months.

and who needs fit indie sluts when you can have fit gay jeds?

optimo = trash without the crap deejays (jus kiddin, e)

every week, my big norwegian mate kristian would go. every week, he would dance like a six-foot-four, shaven-headed, bug-eyed loon for several hours. every week, at four o'clock in the morning, he would bang on my door (i'd just be back from the mission or somewhere, heheheh) and yell how it had been the best night of his life.

happy days.

I see Michael Mayer and Justus Koehncke are now confirmed for the special at the Arches on the 22nd April.

I wonder what will happen, on the 22nd.

hopefully a good time will be had.

Stirmonster, the club Pure had some connection to the band The Honeymooners, didn't it? Or am I getting muddled?

ronan - still no word on the vinyl. the delay is doing my head in.

I was at the meeting where we discussed who to book, just not actually in the office or there when the bookings are made!

you should see an Irish off licence with a half an hour till closing time on the Thursday, it's like a scene from a shopping centre in an armageddon movie.

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:09:34 am)
   j'agrer

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:09:38 am)
   agree!

cozen says: (1:11:06 am)
   you should

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:11:15 am)
   yeah man i mean those people i dont like on ilx i just know id like irl cos i dont give a shit what people like irl

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:11:21 am)
   i just like people

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:11:26 am)
   i love ronan!

cozen says: (1:11:31 am)
   he is a dude!

cozen says: (1:11:35 am)
   did you meet him?

cozen says: (1:11:40 am)
   I bet he is awesome irl

cozen says: (1:11:47 am)
   fun?

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:11:49 am)
   yeah he was the best thing about dublin!

cozen says: (1:11:54 am)
   : )

cozen says: (1:12:01 am)
   I really like ronan

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:12:01 am)
   so warm, lovely

cozen says: (1:12:07 am)
   I think he is coming over fr mayer

cozen says: (1:12:10 am)
   I can't wait

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:12:26 am)
   he should come over for acdc

cozen says: (1:12:34 am)
   he shd come over every weekend

cozen says: (1:12:36 am)
   megabus

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:12:51 am)
   andrew was good too

cozen says: (1:13:00 am)
   you know I am posting all this shit to ilx

cozen says: (1:13:10 am)
   let's start raving

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:13:14 am)
   all what shit?

cozen says: (1:13:20 am)
   I love ronan too

cozen says: (1:13:28 am)
   each night I dream abt ronan

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:13:33 am)
   lol

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:14:09 am)
   i love adam i want to have his babies

cozen says: (1:14:12 am)
   in my dreams, I go looking fr advice and andrew and ronan are there, they say, 'don't worry, go forward, the tiefschwarz remix of the events that transpire will eventually justify everything you do'

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:14:26 am)
   lol

cozen says: (1:14:31 am)
   and then I laugh, cry and wake up

cozen says: (1:14:35 am)
   ok posting now

cozen says: (1:14:43 am)
   now tht I made the funny haha : )

cozen says: (1:14:49 am)
   god saké is bad fr me

dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:15:03 am)
   ur posting where? what thread u?

he will never talk to me again now.

sweet regret, court me now.

http://www.urbanized-records.com/e/search/vinyl_detail.cgi?vinyl_id=1729

I met you in BKLYN. I play in Kid's band. Did he ever give you a copy of our stuff?

jay vee - he didn't give me any of yr stuff but then i only saw him really briefly. i meant to hang out with him more but i was really ill while i was there. i really, really, really want to get you guys to play the club. kid knows that you have an open invitation to play. i don't need to hear it, i know i'm going to love it. tell kid i said hi and that next time we'll hook up properly.

I think I heard these:

ada, "maps" (some drawn out remix?)
ada, "eve"
closer musik, "1 2 3 no gravity (ewan pearson mix)"
frei / köhncke, "hot love (dj koze rmx.)"

... and then blank.

What a fine thing to christen my new CD player with.

Mr Optimo, you should consider coming to the West Coast with your concern, and when I say the West Coast I mean "San Francisco".

-- Jedmond (jedmon...), January 4th, 2005 11:56 AM. (Jedmond)

yup, 4999 other people. it seems the first batch of 5000 have this manufacturing flaw which wasn't discovered until after they had been shipped to the shops. tigersushi will replace any of the ofeending copies if they are sent back to them direct (which i can appreciate is probably more effort than anyone is going to be bothered with).

-- stirmonster (jd_twitc...), January 4th, 2005 12:24 PM.

crazy!! i just got this like 2 weeks ago and i guess i'm one of the 5000. i thought it was intentional.

God, I feel silly about this. But those POPs (found another one, in the "Dexter" segment) will haunt me to my dying day otherwise. I'm totally compulsive about this kind of thing...

: )

when optimo visited montreal unfortunately i had a work-related dj gig the same night :(

the optimo site explicitly says not to email you about this.. rather than bother Tigersushi, can I ask here?

Any insight on any remaining record shops still stocking Kill the DJ Part 2 on 3x12"? or was it a limited friends pressing and i should just give up?

many thx

we'll be ten years old then (if we last that long!). seems a good age to bow out on.

i assume you've already booked a fat lady to sing at the very final night?

thanks for the info, now i can stop looking. quite a rare edition then.. har har. i am quite enamored by the psyche out picture disc, it is a treat.

xp

we have actually talked about this! now if only divine were still alive.

heheh HEHEH. i would expect no less.

And have a (gigantic) falafel at the shop around the corner for me.

my heart seized up a little bit when i read this

oh no. i better try harder to make it out to glasgow

what ws that track with horse screeching noises you played near the end of the BRWH this w/end?!

the space odyssey mix is an amazing hilarious delight.

glad you enjoyed it. the night we did based around "2001 : a space odyssey" was completely hilarious. they don't show up too clearly in this photo but we had a load of HALs custom made. also note monolith hanging from the roof. :-)

http://www.optimo.co.uk/monolith.jpg

http://www.optimo.co.uk/spaceman.jpg

omg wish i coulda been there.

i love the way the space odyssey mix just keeps going... the first time i listened to it i kept thinking "ah what a perfect way for this to end" (like the close encounters music, thus sprach zarathustra etc)... but when telstar came on it warmed my heart.

Mix? Hrm?

I have some pictures from the night too, will look them out... though they're a bit blurry

http://img.skitch.com/20080510-drbcn3pfdd3j8ai3rg7y8qch7i.jpg
http://img.skitch.com/20080510-muw74ki2fwxum4u8pqip2xqmyn.jpg
http://img.skitch.com/20080510-p7y7yihu35anjsxksapg6eyqr1.jpg

^gf's hat

http://img.skitch.com/20080510-84g953jy5bnme5kw22734xf3yu.jpg

http://img.skitch.com/20080510-e8fai6ig8cnhn23qncfa7u3ykd.jpg

http://img.skitch.com/20080510-psrtkat2id2duq1ixsegm971di.jpg

YSI YSI YSI

I'm sorry, she's very fond of it

Lift off

cheers :-)

You, sir, are a prince among men.

i love the way the space odyssey mix just keeps going... the first time i listened to it i kept thinking "ah what a perfect way for this to end" (like the close encounters music, thus sprach zarathustra etc)... but when telstar came on it warmed my heart.
^^^^^^^^^^^

can't believe I didn't hear optimo was playing australia until a few days out; not enough time to organise a trans-tasman trip.

anyone heard the optimo mix of the lottergirls cover of "the day the world turned dayglo"?

you can pretend you were at the last of their four gigs with three mp3s from this page (about four hours in total)

oh god, the hangover

hopefully we'll be coming back to australia in december. we were both completely and utterly smitten with the place - definitely our favourite dj trip of the last few years.

YAYYAYAYAYAY

December = playing in the bush outside of Melbourne again?

thanks for the link, & OH MY GOD YES! plz give enough warning for new zealanders to finally pick up & move to melbourne, etc.

hopefully i'm going to do a few solo dates in new zealand in december before meeting up with my partner in crime in australia. i'm trying to work out the logistics of it at the moment but will keep you informed if it comes together.

thanks stirmonster! the astronauts report it feels good.

the sub club mix is really good! so's the other disc, actually.

that sub club mix in full

Anyone heard the Sleepwalk mix yet?

Yes. It's great! Starts off with three minutes of sea noises (Chris Watson) and then gets crazy fun. Introduced me to Wall Of Voodoo's 'Ring Of Fire' cover - I made brief reference to this on here a couple of weeks ago

Okay, will be getting this forthwith then!

Ooh, better pick that up.

Anyone know any details on possible Aus/NZ dates in December? The website's info ends in Nov.

australia dates in february. sadly nz dates fell apart.

Eh, we're used to it. Know whether it'll be early or late Feb for Aussie? Tempted to go over for the Primitive Calculators reunion + Afrirampo at ATP 09 in Jan .. could make a holiday out've it.

it is looking like the weekends of feb 6/7 (canberra / playground festival), 13/14 (melbourne / perth) and the 20th (sydney). this all has to be 100% confirmed though.

Will Sleepwalk be getting a US release?

tracklisting looks great on that one, i'll have to grab it on itunes once i get home.

anyone like that naum gabo release on dissident? http://www.flexx.be/item/gabo001

i like it quite a bit. and that betty botox stuff is killer (i assume you all know this, though)

it is looking like the weekends of feb 6/7 (canberra / playground festival), 13/14 (melbourne / perth) and the 20th (sydney). this all has to be 100% confirmed though.

*marks calendar*

comps for all your beloved ilxor pals to playground weekender! :D

Will Sleepwalk be getting a US release?

they are hoping for a US release but licensing the arthur russell track for the US is proving incredibly difficult so it will either be held up for some time or come out without that track.

Listening to this mix right now. Very excited about Sleepwalk.

Okay "Witch Hunt" is just awesome. Is this an act I should be embarrassed for never having heard of?

patiently waiting for my copy of that to arrive from RVNG.

^what he said

Mine came today! I forgot to check if I got the red vinyl. It's a very sweet looking package.

i got a copy coming any day now too

The tracklist for the mix is on discogs btw.

60 Minute Of Fear is really rocking my world at the moment. I can't pick a favorite track on it, I've been listening to practically nothing else this week.

Sleepwalk is quite exquisite too, I've been playing it fairly soft volume late at night and it's giving me Lynchian dreams.

Thank you Optimo

Optimo nicely falls on my birthday this year. Bring on the 28th!

north america/ mexico tour dates:

Thursday January 15th - Toronto Drake Hotel (Twitch)

Friday January 16th - Philadelphia Barbary (Twitch)

Saturday January 17th - New York Santos (Twitch)

Tuesday January 20th - Portland Holocene (Twitch)

Wednesday January 21st - Los Angeles The Echo (Twitch)

Friday January 23rd - Mexico City Pasjae America (Twitch)

the 60 minutes of fear mix makes me feel like i'm seventeen again (in the best way possible)

i'm likely going to the first nyc date (wilkes is i thought DJing the 24th somewhere?)

yeah i just pulled those off the website and i think the 24th is still tba ... so refer back to http://www.optimo.co.uk/ontour2009.htm for further info.

wtf portland + la but no san francisco? please stirmonster come here soon!

Wait, how had I missed that Stirmonster was part of Optimo this whole time? Good lord do I miss things sometimes.

oh, ned!

(wilkes is i thought DJing the 24th somewhere?)

in new york at the ESG show at le poisson rouge

Haver just ordered the 60 Minutes of Fear set, hooray! Hope I'll still get the full package...

so what's happening not tonight but next week?

What happened to Ian SPACK?

ateve shasta, are you going to be in glasgow?!

ateve?

what's happening is normal optimo w/ no guests and that's about as good as it gets in my book.

i have an excellent mp3 of the optimo show from a couple weeks ago in melbourne... would upload but i think it's coming as a podcast through other means, will link it when it does. it's two and a half hours and it's still only half the set!

jed, i'm trying. My friends want to drive but I'm like .... "eh?"

Seeing this thread bumped again reminded me- thanks for doing the Ten Tracks thing, Stirmonster (and Wilkes/Naum, who as far as I know doesn't post here so you'll just have to take his thanks and like it). I'm about halfway through the selection from October and you've already convinced me to check out the rest of the Den Haan EP ("Metamorphosis" is fucking great) and give the Black Affair album a shot.

steve, if you're going to be about then email me on colinohara at gmail. be good to have a drink!

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1909&Itemid=26

Interesting to see newer stuff getting the edit treatment.

hope you can make it steve! if you are going to, email me.

I think ian is around lurking as usual. Last name i saw him using was Niche Ian.
Also lol @ ned

i def will stirry.

new sonic assassins is killer! id heard there was throbbing gristle on it so i couldnt stop thinking 'something came over me' was going to feature in 'fumble in the bungle' for some reason

wouldn't it be fun, if we could all be at optimo together?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:30 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't know if I can say it here but the Den Haan ep is something fabolous.
Best new music I heard in this 3 months of 2009.

den haan and optimo are at disco bloodbath with todd terje on april 9 and i cant bloody wait! easter apocalypso

is todd terje playing at that also? daaaaaaamn

i know, unbelievable. i might be stuck doing visuals at a bloody infadels gig till 1

http://www.optimo.co.uk/cramp1.jpg

Australian top-5-charting, self-released pop group Sneaky S0und Sy5tem have evidently been touring the UK, and their showpony frontman wrote a tour diary for the weekly clubber's newspaper back home in Sydney:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/sneakydiary1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/sneakydiary2.jpg

I wonder how The Archers took to that; R4 listeners must be expanding their musical consciousness!

You can guess which bandmember typed that:

http://whothehell.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/sneakywhite.jpg

which member? does optimo's venue not have any lights at all?

really really liking the florence & machine remix but i don't dj with vinyl and can't find an mp3 of it - says here that "Optimo take on one of the hottest bands around - florence & the machine. supplying two remixes which will never be released on any other format" booooo. twitch, if you're around, check your myspace!

that feature is odd as i met those guys on the night and they seemed to know what the club was. they were telling me they have been doing a sunday night club in sydney for ten years. is that right?

also, i should point out, we have lots of lights. in fact, we are ALL about the lights. i guess he was going for dramatic effect there.

NI - here's the vocal remix of florence and the machine -

https://download.yousendit.com/WnBUeW41bWc5RlozZUE9PQ

ps - NI, checked my myspace but you weren't there.

Short hair in suit is the one that started and ran the Sunday night, topless blond Prince Valiant ostensibly wrote the piece, if that makes any difference re who you spoke to...

just seen these replies now and missed the YSI file before it got nixed, doh. i've messaged you (at the optimo espacio myspace) again twitch, i think there's been some crossed wires?

would love to see footage or photos of the optimo lights btw, or even a description of them. saying optimo is 'ALL about the lights' has piqued my interest!

have replied - i think there was some confusion as a few people check and reply to the myspace messages. it perhaps isn't "all about the lights" but we have some custom made light boxes and neon signs. i don't have any photos to hand i'm afraid.

http://acuterecords.com/optimo.jpg

Wilkes is spinning tonight in Chicago at Sonotheque, anyone going?? What can I expect?

radness

you can expect to get down.

Do you know what time you might be on this Friday at T bar, stirmonster?

I'd love to go but can't stay out super late

they have been a tad slack in giving me any info. i will post back when i find out. i'm hoping not super late either as i have an intense weekend and could do with fitting in some sleep at some point.

Thanks. Hope to see you there!

12.30 - 02.30

what was that amazing Q Lazarus edit/remix?

soooo is this place still as cool as six years ago when the thread was started?

it was cool when I went last summer.

ditto

still the shit

I can't answer for the Optimo guys obviously but could it be the Krikor edit ("Goodbye Horses" without the chorus, just keeps building up?)

what was that amazing Q Lazarus edit/remix?

it was the krikor edit with a loop of this insanely heavy felix da housecat drum track mixed over it.

soooo is this place still as cool as six years ago when the thread was started?

i dunno if it is, or ever was cool, but it's still immensely good fun. tonight - amazing crowd + amazing atmosphere + gavin russom live analogue intensity = my perfect club night.

Anyone heard this yet?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Order-Edit-Optimo-Presents/dp/B001U7FWQ4

not yet but it's coming.
so glad twitch is playing re-bar in seattle! it's going to be fun. the place is a silly dive, it should work really well. i'm recruiting a group to go

Reynolds has: blissblog

Okay definitely getting this, Reynolds makes it sound great.

also don't know much about this beyond the poster but am looking forward to it:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/jackmaster1/carnivalA3.jpg

Plus Juan Maclean. Expensive month for an unemployed soul.

gah. apologies for the size.

Nah that's cool, it's a great poster! Hmmm can I make it up to Glasgow that weekend?

OK, so about 1:44:00 into Optimo's incredible Essential Mix, they drop this jaw-dropping remix of "Hallogallo", labeled as the "Mary Hill Rework". I have been searching for this thing for well over a year and a half, and the only other mention I can find of it is on http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/5956. Has anyone ever come across this before?? Was it rereleased under a different moniker/title/etc? I would kind of sell my kidney to get a hold of this...

Is it Dingered & Rothered - Betty Botox?

off Betty's sublime kraut ep.

i'm afraid the remix of "hallogallo" was never released. it was done by jg wilkes and we did talk about putting it out but that idea fell by the wayside somewhere along the line.

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/05/00/050001_4bf470ae.jpg

In Order to Edit mix is great BTW.

xxp is there any chance it might be released/"reissued" in the future? It's rock fucking solid

Is it from the Mount Florida/Mary Hill Krautrock split that was announced/unreleased?

Holy shit, this Betty Botox KRAUT EP is quite sublime, indeed!!

Is it from the Mount Florida/Mary Hill Krautrock split that was announced/unreleased?

it was indeed. the mount florida track ended up on betty's kraut ep.

Todd Terje lists the Optimo Remix of They Came From The Stars I Saw Them as his number 1 in his dj chart on juno this month (even though it came out nearly 3 years ago...!)

http://www.junodownload.com/charts/dj/674125-Todd_Terje/304648-Chart/

i love that mix.

diggin In Order to Edit

I think I discovered your amazing label thanks to that amazing remix!

leonardo? krautep? in order to edit?

Leonardo

YSI

Sendspace

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u got sicrolled

apparently

P.S. stirmonster I saw you at the Barbary in Philly back in January (and shook your hand and told you how much I loved "How to Kill the DJ, part 2") and it was one of the greatest things my friend and I ever saw. Do you remember the show well? How was it in relation to a typical night at Optimo?

xpost

Damn, "In Order to Edit" kills, that Speedjack-into-The-Mover transition is astonishing- not to be all old skool bruv, but it brings me back to hearing The Mover DJ at VFM many many many years ago.

How was it in relation to a typical night at Optimo

i can't really remember what i was playing but i do remember shaking your hand and i also remember it being one of my favourite us gigs. i love philly! i'm back next month (not sure where yet).

i need to go to optimo again sometime, got a job that means i'm often off on Mondays now so no excuse.

Aaah, let me know the date as soon as you find out so I can get off work! NYC's overblown; Philly rules :)

anybody else going to Alter Ego / Twitch / Fixed party at Knitting Factory Brooklyn tomorrow?

been laid up due to illness all week so couldn't get into town, so does anyone know if there are tickets left for The Field, if so should I head into town and get some from somewhere if possible or should I get one on the door?

anybody else going to Alter Ego / Twitch / Fixed party at Knitting Factory Brooklyn tomorrow?

― dmr, Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:09 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

this was fun btw

are they pre-selling Field tickets? usually it's just on the door but when they do pre-sell some sub club gigs i think it's only half in advance so you should get in easily if you turn up just before the doors open.

that's the other worry. I think I'm seeing the Flaming Lips with a friend that night, which means (depending on where that gig is) I won't be making to the Sub Club until gone 11. Would be pretty annoyed if I missed The Field in order to see the Flaming Lips.

And I quote:

We just got asked to do a Fabric mix cd (due May 2010). Exciting!

looking forward to seeing this handsome young man in a warehouse in Sydney come Saturday night:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/twitch_nme92.jpg

anybody go to the turbo rave? if so i am jealous.

^^^ where on earth did you dig that up from?

the turbo rave was the most fun ever.

a combination of moving house and SHEER GLORIOUS FLUKE

Aw man, the turbo rave looked fantastic, but as I teach on Monday mornings it was a no go. Roll on the Easter holidays.

;_;

THE END IS NIGH - LAST EVER OPTIMO

http://www.optimo.co.uk/echationew/viewtopic.php?t=2917

should really go to one of these since i haven't been to optimo since 2002.

stirmonster has been promising an end to Optimo for YEARS now

i think he just does it for attention ;)

been lucky enough to see Twitch and Wilkes DJ in NYC several times but I always kinda had in the back of my mind that *one of these days* I'd try to see Optimo in Glasgow. didn't make it! bummer.

good luck on whatever you've got on deck stirmonster

no 'hitler reacts to the end of optimo' vid, no credibility

haha

aw, man. glad i got to see you guys in glasgow!

btw Betty Botox is now digital on junodownload.

http://www.factmag.com/2010/03/25/optimo-do-fabric-52-tracklist-inside/

They're doing the next Fabric mix. And the tracklisting looks terrific:

01 Fad Gadget – Lady Shave – Mute
02 Discodromo – Cosmorama (Prins Thomas Discomiks) – Internasjonal
03 Basic Channel – Q1.1 – Basic Channel
04 Spencer Parker – YOGOTO – Rekids
05 Locussolus – Gunship – International Feel
06 Rebolledo – Amigos Cómeme – Cómeme
07 The Minister – Jack Your Bodey House Your Mind – Crème Organization
08 Altz – Get It Down! – Altzmusica
09 Thomas Brinkmann – Walk With Me – Curle
10 Rheingold – Dreiklangsdimensionen – Welt Rekord
11 Capablanca & T Keeler – La Konk Fiesta – Gomma
12 Roska – Feeline – Roska Kicks & Snares
13 Cumbia Moderna De Soledad – Shacalao – Sunflower
14 The Tyrell Corporation – Together Alone – Clone
15 Roni Griffith – Spys – Vanguard
16 Levon Vincent – Love Technique – Ovum
17 Oni Ayhun – OAR003-B – Oni Ayhun
18 Desire – Don’t Call – Italians Do It Better
19 Crazy Cousinz – Inflation – Defenders Ent Ltd
20 Matias Aguayo – Walter Neff – Kompakt
21 Nakion – Heartbit – Tigersushi
22 Xex – Heartbeat – What’s That Music

Looking forward to seeing how Inflation into Walter Neff works.

Yeah it looks good. They're expert mixers based on How to Kill The DJ pt 2, Sleepwalk and Psyche Out.

they're expert mixers based on them being optimo!

lol

bit sad that i missed em when they swung thru melbs the other week due to being broke. come back soon stirry!

hey haitch. had hoped i would see you (was fun times). you should have said you were broke and i'd have got you in and stood you a few drinks.

An Optimo Oral History

Really desperate to go to the final one on Sunday, but a lot of balls up in the air. Think I'd cry though.

The Optimo mix is a killer, fyi

250 optimo classics

http://www.optimo.co.uk/blog/index.php

also on spotify

OK the next thing to do is for someone to make a torrent out of these songs so that I can make the best itunes party playlist of all time.

Because seriously, if I hear MGMT or Matt & Kim one more fucking time

I had a dream I went to the last one, 2 nights ago..

it was awesome if the one in my dream was anything to go by.

given up on the notion of going. i'm finally kind of okay with that.

what will be the final song at the final optimo??

I hope it would Optimo. Or Optimo followed by some teary ballad, or some kick out the jams rager.

Put on my recording of pi, leave.

gotta be: Is that all there is? - Christina

an Optimo end of the night classic

is that all there is? was the penultimate optimo's last song.

good luck tonight!

thanks. 8 hours until the doors open and there's already a queue!

are you joking?

have a great great night stir

the long great night of the soul

the queue went to the pub when it started raining! how glasgow.

night be streaming live. will report back if we can get it working.

awesome

did you enjoy fuck buttons? (spotted you in the crowd :))

Heads up:

http://www.awdio.com/#sources/87/Subclub

Song To The Siren, awesome...can't help wanting it to go thundering into Messiah 'Temple Of Dreams'

Haha and instead we get Suicide. ("Ghostrider" would have been too obvious I guess!)

so i figure Mclaren stuff has been going off like never before at these last few ones

what's this playing under TV On The Radio?

timecode yassssss

This is great but I have work tomorrow - will it be archived on the site? (I see they have some archives, so I'm hoping yes.)

Losing My Edge! I wonder what time it finishes?

3am I think, unless they managed to appeal the decision on their 4am license

you'd think the city would just be like "you know what? go all night, let it spill out onto the street, you've paid your dues"

4 am?? Jeepers i can't stay up that late ive only got one bottle of wine.

Anyone know what this Boney M style number is right now?

chilly's For Your Love? not sure of the timing..

yep bang on. tune!

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=optimo

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs439.snc3/25234_379072058869_747268869_4066637_2201971_n.jpg

don't even want to know what time that was taken

lol, chronicles of ridic.

discocampbell: @goncalop I'm at the Optimo set and the place is going mental! Crowd shouting, no room to move....simply amazing.

not sure if it's good or bad that his punctuation and spelling in a crowded club at 12.20 am is better than mine on a laptop at the best of times

It's kinda like TRASH's end i guess.

got the world cup final 1982 on espn classic, drinking a wee whiskey, and listening to this. pretty good sunday night.

haha

(duelling banjos)

shit just got real

Boney M!

Kennyboy13: Optimo queue at half12...the towel was thrown in after 3hrs of waiting http://yfrog.com/ei2czqj

oh this is my jam...Amin Peck-Coda. Some kind of edit/mix/something? Cover?

Well this one had to turn up, didn't it -- what mix of "I Feel Love" is it, though?

"ultimate warlord"!! man if i were there i would be LOSING MY SHIT right about now

That's for sure!

It's a mental edit of some kind. They've played some famous edits tonight like greg Wilson's Talking Heads one. I guess it'll be on Soundcloud somewhere.

Never read the net going this nuts for a dj mix or anything of this kind ever before. Listening live and reading along with people's thoughts live on Twitter it feels like we're now hearing some kind of massive soon-to-be-legendary event happening RIGHT NOW!

Think if people liveblogged/twitter most Optimos like this people would be losing their shit. Seriously this club was something else.

though they do seem to be hitting a lot of classics tonight.

i am tuned in and dancing around my kitchen

Hahahah WOW that was an amazing switch.

to the stooges?

(xp)

Yup!

thought they were being serious here ha
we've always thought that optimo is a forward looking music club. we think we should go out looking to the future, so expect to only hear the latest basstep and uk funky tracks all night. maybe we'll chuck "stand on the word" on at the end just for old time's sake?*

i know! it's like a greatest hits collection. in a good way.

XD

XD

absurd

i wonder if everything they've played tonight comes from that crowdsourced list they compiled this week?

http://deeperwants.com/ratboys_anvil_2/IcanfeelJeebus.jpg

has someone rapidshare'd that list yet anyway

It's very weighted in favour of that 250 list but there's still lots getting played that's not on it.

this is my favourite section

sean paul was so sick

Hahah and why am I not surprised to hear the old warhorse here...

they played "temperature" when i saw them

(So not a complaint of course!)

This is awesome. Haven't heard Sean Paul in ages. Having missed most of this I hope someone's recording it...

Yeah, they played temperature the one time I went!

just waiting for brutalga square

if only i had a knife and some grapefruits rite now

woooooo

niceeeee

anyone know if this is goin on til 4 or 3?

last I heard they didn't get their 4am licence

this section has a real endgame feeling

Having missed most of this I hope someone's recording it...

― toby, Sunday, April 25, 2010 8:58 PM (54 minutes ago)

seconding this^^

i've been writing a paper all night :(

sure they'll be hunners of people recording this tbh. will be all over the net by the end of tonight.

gf queued for a few hours for this before giving up and being dragged to sleazy's.

Stream is fkn immense, really wish i wsn't so much of a dick abt clubs and actually managed to go at least once.

that track they mixed into 'hung up' was INSANE

one more hour! haaaaaaaaaaaa

haha

ONE MORE HOUR!

yeah wth track was that they mixed into hung up?!

XD XD XD

haha wow (4th submit)

is this that langley schools thing from a few years back

yeah.

d'you reckon there's still a queue? #madnessbutthenightbusdoesrunpastmyflat

the tracklist will all be filled in by tomorrow like that autechre 12hr mix...

3 am and listening to optimo i'm having a pavlovian desire for a chicken carbonara sandwich

i desire FLIRTATIONS

this analog synth thing sounds like luc ferrari or some ish

SPARKS. going into this final hour was some devious shit.

oh shit westbam

lol i think sleazy is the only place in glasgow i've ever been?

aaaaaand 'atomic'!

what the hell was that version of wicked game? a terje type thing?

Didn't hear it but sounds like it's probably the Soul Clap edit of Wicked Game.

Wicked Game (Trentemoller Businessman Dubby Games Remix)

merzbow vs the doors?

this is fkn great

wall of noise. ♥

ARTHUR

My enduring memory of Sleazy's is of some dude telling all his friends he'd just finished his first lecture on Derrida and he'd bcz of it he'd suddenly realized how to sort out the whole Palestine situation. Cue fifteen minute of some of lol grade bullshit and me trying really hard not to fall off my seat laughing.

Try glasgow more.

music is music.

it just had to be

loooooooooooooooool porky pig

.

damn
can hear the birds outside now

has someone recorded this?

i sure hope so

;_;

awesome from start till finish

need to hear this, I only caught the very end

kinda choked up during 'stand on the word'

haha still going!!

lol overtime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tuTSi6Sck

I got the last 3 or so hours. Was listening until T Rex then went to catch up on some TV. Now I can listen to the rest in realtime, like it'll end around the time it ended for them!

who does the Suicide Commando cover?

DJ Hell? Echopark?

or Vitalic? Forgot he did one as well

is this available to DL anywhere yet.....

give it a day or so, it'll be up in the usual place

usual place?

the internet

they really carried on after 4am? i ended up not getting to sleep until around 6 :(

read something on twitter about the feed coming back up. i thought it ended at nina simone.

yeah it went on for a bit longer even after the stream died. last couple were The Chain by Fleetwood Mac and Seven Days by Chuck Wood.

first post-Optimo night is Mati Aguayo on Sunday iirc. Colour me intrigued.

thanks to Simon on Thisisnotanexit blog, last 15min!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/y6f70y

if I get something a tenth (I had to think that figure through. Half? No that's still lots. Quarter? Still!) as good as this when they visit my lowly town next month, I'm going to die happy and such.

I have like the last 3 or so hours, but there's a few weird breaks due to streaming dropping out. I figured somebody will upload the whole thing shortly, but tif they don't, I can.

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/1234525508_ben_stiller_-_do_it.gif

http://rippedinglasgow.blogspot.com/2010/04/optimogeddon-final-optimo-25-april-2010.html

loved it, big thanks to stirmonster xxx got home at 10 am this morning have been recovering til now.

haha <3

http://vimeo.com/11245823

sweaty but excellent

usual place?

looks like you knew it

wow! almost as blown away by the activity on this thread as i was by sunday night. :)

here's a few responses -

Haha and instead we get Suicide. ("Ghostrider" would have been too obvious I guess!)

"ghostrider" was cueued up at one point!

what's this playing under TV On The Radio?

"walking trough heaven" by chris and cosey

though they do seem to be hitting a lot of classics tonight.

i had lots of new music and things i'd never managed to but always wanted to play with me. i also had the greatest hits of optimo. we could have played literally anything we wanted to but i think one of the things about the night was always picking up on the energy of the crowd, and sunday simply felt like the greatest party i've ever been to. it would have felt too self indulgent to have done anything else than to have played a party set (it would also have been a bit rough on the several hundred who didn't get in who went home to listen or remained outside and were listening on their phones).

we recorded the night with microphones placed around the club to capture the crowd noise. i haven't heard the awdio stream but i have a feeling you are only getting 50% of the story. the noise from the dancefloor was astonishing (there's quite a few points where we cut the music and they are singing along). we also had a secondary sound system in for the night and when we switched that on around midnight, the roar was deafening. the second pa also made mixing quite tricky so i'm going to blame any shoddy mixing on that. :)

i'll check how the recording came out next week and will then hopefully post up a link to the full recording with crowd noise.

d'you reckon there's still a queue?

there was still a queue at 2.30am. most people had given up by then but a few determined folks waited it out so we squeezed them in. we estimate that around 1500-2000 tried to get in. by opening so early, we thought a lot of people would come for a few hours and then leave so others could get in but it simply didn't happen. almost everyone wanted to stay until the end.

Wicked Game (Trentemoller Businessman Dubby Games Remix)

thanks! only ever had a white label and never knew who had done it.

last couple were The Chain by Fleetwood Mac and Seven Days by Chuck Wood.

it was meant to end with nina but then the club owner grabbed the mic and made a wee speech. i didn't want that to be the last thing ever heard at the club so played some more.

What was the track that led into Hung Up?

"walking trough heaven" by chris and cosey

thank you!

(there's quite a few points where we cut the music and they are singing along)

this would explain the occasional cuts lasting a few seconds then. thought it was just a buffering issue ha.

"walking trough heaven" - of course should read through, not trough.

track that led up to "hung up", i think was -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DY75Ylyu9U

i'll check how the recording came out next week and will then hopefully post up a link to the full recording with crowd noise.

Can't wait! And thanks again for arranging the stream on the day!

yeah that was great

Holy shit, the capacity of the club is only a few hundred, right? What time did you guys start playing?

capacity is officially 400 but can actually fit 550+ in. we played 9pm - 4am.

Wow, I wonder how long you had to be in line to actually make it in

so did you have 400 people in from the start? sounded like there was a major switch to dancier stuff around 10.30-11 but i guess with so little room for dancing that wasn't really an issue anyway. xp

I'm assuming they did, did you see the picture of the line in broad daylight?

it was full within about 30 minutes of the doors opening (took a while to get people in). the start of the night was always our chance to play music not for dancing to although on sunday, people were dancing to even the most undanceable music at the start.

I'm trying to imagine people dancing to "Song of the Siren"...

You roll around on the ground with someone while really bright headlights shine on you

You say this with the voice of experience.

Just reminiscing about that time I starred in Lost Highway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laf8bhSeGNY

http://vimeo.com/11277704

i'll check how the recording came out next week and will then hopefully post up a link to the full recording with crowd noise.

!! <3 <3

oh man I'd love to see more of that clip when the Passenger comes in!

i have fond memories of dancing at Optimo to "The Passenger", at Planet Peach, when about 30 people were there. the bouncers were horrible, it was a horrible venue, but so much fun nonetheless.

matias aguayo was wonderful tonight.

yes. he was the best thing ever!

Fabric mix is aces btw.

The Tyrell Corporation - Together Alone to Roni Griffith - Spys to Levon Vincent - Love Technique!
This is such a great choice of records. I really love this mix, if only for the first song, but it gets better. Where is that Fad Gaget song from??

The sub club website says that tonight (8th of August) is Twitch and Wilkes. I don't believe that for some reason, but as it is my last Sunday night in Glasgow ever I'd like to know if I should make it down.

P.S. My friend wants to know if I can look after her dogs for the night so it's not a case of just not bothering to go down. I can either go or stay in.

Optimo website says

Residents party this Sunday (8th), with some familiar faces making an appearance...all will be revealed on the night...

So, has anyone been to Hung Up!, which is what the ex-Optimo Sunday night has evolved into?

I'm a sad loser who never went to Optimo, but am wondering now...

They have Ivan Smagghe on the 15th and James Murphy on the 22nd.

jealous of those going to James Murphy. always a good time.

After LCD earlier this year converting me to their cause I'm very tempted if I can find anyone to hold my hand into the proper clubbing world.

I'll probably be there on the 5th.

September? Who's playing that one?

No idea! But I'm planning to be in the same hemisphere/country/city, so

sic, was just saying to grimly f (on facebk) that we shld have another glasgow fap...

I'm up for Sunday 5th September.

Hey Ward! I have had “try glasgow more” open in a tab for a week waiting for my travel plans to be vaguely finalised before I Suggest Fap. (I have a plane ticket for nine days away but haven’t had leave approved yet!) If real fappage wasn’t going to work out once I have times bashed into shape, I was going to mail you and grimly to see if we could lunch...

got yr ilxmail krakow btw

I have been told that Optimo is, in some form, coming back to Philadelphia! such excitement!!

supposed to be in Brooklyn August 29

yup, we're both playing philly on both the 25th and 27th (25th is a bar gig where i will be playing rock n' roll), 27th is making time and then we're playing sunday best in brooklyn on the 29th.

i haven't decided who is playing the club in glasgow on the 5th yet but will probably be some of our local residents - we're both in croatia that day.

WHOA!! stirmonster I am so so fucking excited :D Do you know what bar you'll be at the 25th?

the bar is the pope.

DOUBLE WHOA, that's the local watering hole for a bunch of my good friends! I didn't even know they did events like that.

Kinda rearranging our European trip to (finally) catch Optimo in Paris on Sept 23rd w/Danton Eeprom at Rex Club. I'm guessing NZ is still an unlikely destination, but are any Australian jaunts in the pipeline?

Waaay psyched for this Friday. So you're playing at POPE (the one on Passyunk East, I presume) on the 25th? What time are you on?

i'm afraid i don't know anything about the pope gig apart from what i've posted. i'll try to find out and post back.

etc - there is a very, very slight chance we'll be playing NZ in december as we're going to be playing in australia then.

http://www.corsicastudios.com/index.php/september-2010/285-ekstravaganza-6-september-10th

http://www.corsicastudios.com/images/stories/eks6-web.jpg

That's just a ridiculous line-up, wish I could go. Ekstravaganza is pretty much the best regular club night in London these days.

Hey Jamie! I just heard Keith spelling out “...i-l-x-o-r” over the music and thought he was saying you were “(ilxor)”, not just an ILX0r – didn’t work out who you were until after 6am – sorry for thus being so confusing!

it was a confusing night all round!

:D

Stir. Can you expand on the Prins Thomas wee drinking scenario you hinted at in your tweet?

you cant just leave that stuff hanging.......

Prins doesn't do toilet tracks, would be my guess.

^ on the micturition

what matt dc said.

it was a confusing night all round!

indeed

I was very confused by the time I met you all! Sorry ...

Travel problems nixed the Rex Club appearance (if my dodgy French serves me correctly). Anyone know more about the TBC gig in Metz on October 1st?

http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae130/Optimo_Dept/bigger_bolder.jpg

Travel problems nixed the Rex Club appearance (if my dodgy French serves me correctly). Anyone know more about the TBC gig in Metz on October 1st?

french air traffic control strike prevented us getting to paris. the metz gig isn't happening but we are back in paris in november.

http://www.factmag.com/2010/10/15/optimo-to-release-covers-album-by-10-year-old-ghanaian-twins/

OMG.

Yeah!

absolutely love "moody". so cute to hear that hybrid african/glaswegian accent! the way she says "moody" is sooooo glasgow.

Betty Botox "Kraut EP" is fucking aaaawwweeessome

Oh damn, Making Time/snacks mailing list says Optimo is doing Philly again in January!! CAN IT BE TRUE!?

they're playing NY on the 7th so it's highly likely.

Optimo DJ'd at Bowlie 2 the other week after the bands, first time I had any exposure to them tbh, it was brilliant. Best DJ set of the weekend.

they're in DC the first week of January so I presume all East Coast rumours are true.

99% certain we're doing philly. just waiting to hear for sure. it will go up here in the next day or two - http://www.optimo.co.uk/shows/

colonel poo - glad you enjoyed the bowlie set. i tried to play a different kind of set from usual that would maybe appeal to an indie(esque) audience without being indie.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/wdyll/twitchy.gif

Really great tonight. Miss the days at the subclub.

did anybody link this? pretty fun -

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4139784-top-250-optimo-tracks-revealed-list-inside

There a link to the spotify playlist in the comments too.

they did yeah

― hotel califor.nia (r1o natsume), Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:53 (8 months ago)

whoops xpost - the spotify playlist was the next post in this thread too!

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/2/27559/625504-ouroboros_lezard_tatou_super.jpg

I wish I could see their EIGHT HOUR set at the Bunker tonight.. Doors close at 5am so set your alarm New Yorkers.

they did one of those 8 hour sets @ plastic people recently + i didnt find out till the day after :(

good weekend for dance music in NY...Bunker anniversary fri night incl. Optimo, and saturday at Santos Metro Area downstairs for Discovery party and Paradise Garage reunion upstairs (though the upstairs is $$$$)

Saturday at Triple Crown in SF was a highlight of my crummy life, thank you JD!

New Optimo FACT mix!
http://www.factmag.com/2011/01/17/fact-mix-214-optimo/

Sounds a bit Sleepwalk-esque from the blurb...

tracklisting for FACT mix -

Odd Machine - Phase In (edit)
Cindytalk - Our Shadow, Remembered
Alvo Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Morning
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (JD Twitch Reversion)
Zoviet France - The Decriminalisation Of Country Music
Sun City Girls - Come Maddalena
Forest Swords - The Light
Oneohtrix Point Never - Young Beidnahga
No Man - Days In The Trees
Tomita - Clair De Lune
Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet Statique
Timothy Leary - The Aim Of The Game
Peter Baumann - This Day
Reichmann - Wunderbar
Duet Emmo - The First Person
Carol - So Low
Zoviet France - Vienna (extract)

Just put this on my iPhone; cannot wait to listen to it on the bus today

absolutely beautiful.

stirmonster, i remember when you had that zoviet france track up on your now long-dead mac.com dropbox!

last night's 'night of 45 cuts' was maybe the best night out I've had in Dundee, God bless yous.

did everyone hear this epic mix already?

JD Twitch - Bass and Bleeps 1990 - 2011

sick

Anyone else listening to the Domino session at the mo? Far fuckin out...

Haha no - is it available retroactively?